Kelsey Hern

Kelsey Hern

Kelsey Hern

Kelsey Hern

Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: kelsey_hern@berkeley.edu

Kelsey Hern completed her B.S. in Biochemistry in 2016 and went on to develop nanotechnologies to understand, diagnose and treat infectious respiratory diseases. She did her PhD work in Adam Arkin’s lab designing lower airway communities for protection against respiratory infection. As a Women in Enterprising Science Fellow at the Innovative Genomics Institute, Kelsey works to take the technology developed in her PhD and apply it to real-world clinical problems. Kelsey’s research interests include microbial interactions, synthetic biology and the development of living materials for improving health.